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Photos taken for the American magazine Life All the photos from Life’s archives can be looked up on Google in many different topic areas (of course, most are related to American topics, but some are Chinese-related). Life magazine doesn’t exist any more, but some of the world’s best photographers used to work for the magazine. If you have any good photos of old Shenzhen, please send them to me!

Shenzhen border taken from Hong Kong side

Peasants cross bridge between Hong Kong and Shenzhen in 1954

Hong Kong - Shenzhen border

Workers unload train at Lowu border

Shatoujiao

Hong Kong Harbor, late 1940s

from another website, Shenzhen 1970s

From the photos, it is hard to believe Lowu would become the world’s busiest crossing.